I, for one, am sorry that some of you who have lived through life-and-death combat don't like his use of the term; but I hope you can see that in no way did he mean to be disrespectful.

Thanks for your understanding and compassion about where some of us are coming from. It may just always be a semantic sore-spot some of us live with. I know no-offense was meant, and none taken. Only an observation from an old grunt.

Lynn Seiser PhD
Yondan Aikido & FMA/JKD
We do not rise to the level of our expectations, but fall to the level of our training. Train well. KWATZ!